BEARMAN VERSUS CAMARA: FERRARI SUCCESSION BATTLE LOOMS

Original: Why it's now Bearman versus Camara for the next Ferrari vacancy

Oliver Bearman and Rafael Camara are competing for the next available Ferrari driver seat as the team manages its junior driver succession planning.

Succession planning is one of the more subtle arts of the Formula 1 team boss. All the top teams maintain junior-driver programmes with the explicit intention of developing talent for when a race seat falls vacant. Often the timing doesn't work in favour of the driver waiting for that vacancy. As a